Spain Papers Review - Thursday October 19, 2017

El País – ‘Government and PSOE doubt the reach and time for 155’ –

Oct 19, 2017 - 9:13 AM

El País – ‘Government and PSOE doubt the reach and time for 155’ – The Generalitat has ruled out elections and Puigdemont has yet to declare his republic – The Catalan crisis could cost the Spanish State 12 billion €.

ABC – sovereigntist challenge – ‘Rajoy offers ‘amnesty’ in exchange for a legal election’ – proposes to Puigdemont suspending the 155 and to escape political charges, if today he declines to declare independence.

El Mundo – ‘Rajoy will use a delay in triggering article 155 to have Puigdemont more time’ – the Government and PSOE call in the ‘president’ to call a legal election before the Senate authorises 155. If he fails to do so, then the control of Los Mossos and the Catalan Treasury would be Rajoy’s priority objective. Barcelona now without any option to host the European Medicaments Agency now based in London.
Photo of Mariano Rajoy.
‘Volkswagen has left in the hands of Seat their plan to desert Cataluña’ - the independence crisis will see a bloodletting as high as 13 billion € of GDP in 2018.

La Razón – Rajoy will not approve the triggering of Article 155 today… and Puigdemont plans to declare an election fearing the State would take control.

NATIONAL

El País notes ‘ACS has increased its offer from Atlantia for Albertis to over 2 billion €’ – the company would pass into the hands of a German holding if the OPA is successful.
El Mundo – ‘Blow against Florentino Pérez to become the world leader owner of toll motorways’ – ACS has announced a bid over 2 billion €

El País has a series on the New Arrivals – the migrants who manage to get into Spain – Hicham already has his papers – he arrived in Algeciras Port on the axis of lorry six years ago.

INTERNATIONAL
El País quotes David Davis – British minister for Brexit ‘We are prepared for a Brexit without agreement’ – After seven months the Brexit negotiations enter into a critical phase. The British minister granted an interview to El País and four other media, despite he hopes such an outcome is unlikely. Britain must be prepared for a Brexit at odds to the EU.

El País – More communism in China – president Xi Jinping announced yesterday in Beijing during the opening of the XIX congress of the Chinese Communist Party that his plans to covert his country into a ‘grand modern socialist nation’.
El Mundo - adds the president is preparing a new army for China ‘ready for combat’

REGIONAL

La Verdad in Murcia – Breast Cancer World Day – photo of four local women – who have never given up despite being sacked by employers who don’t understand the condition.
The Supreme Court has supported the decree for self-generation and denies it is a ‘Sun tax’ – considered the payment reasonable while the consumer maintains connected to the national grid. Solar energy producers lament ‘a political sentence which leaves Spain at the back of Europe’
Agriculture in the region getting a boost in Germany – Fruit Attraction.

Información in Alicante ‘the only cruise liner company who established base in Alicante is to abandon’ – Pullmantur has removed Alicante for their Mediterranean tours and their last departure will be next month.

Diario in Mallorca – ‘an outbreak of legionella has provoked one death (70-year-old tourist) and 17 affected in Palmanova’ - the virus has been found in an hotel, where 8 of the 18 affected tourists were staying, except one workers. Water supplies have been cut as a precaution.

Diario Sur in Málaga – ‘a group of experts propose Health a new 800 bed hospital behind the Maternal’ – leaving Carlos Haya for chronic illnesses and long stays.
A bad odour has invaded Málaga – the first rains of the Autumn have put into evidence the bad state of the city’s drains.